Electroweak Corrections

The test of the electroweak corrections has played a major role in providing evidence for the gauge and the Higgs sectors of the Standard Model. At the same time the consideration of the electroweak corrections has given significant indirect information on the masses of the top and the Higgs boson before their discoveries and important orientation/constraints on the searches for new physics, still highly valuable in the present situation.The progression of these contributions is reviewed.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, a contribution to "The Standard Theory up to the Higgs discovery - 60 years of CERN

ICHEP2012 Physics Highlights

I describe some of the highlights of ICHEP2012 with an eye to the current status of particle physics.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, ICHEP2012, Melbourn

Minimal Flavor Violation and SU(5)-unification

Minimal Flavour Violation in its strong or weak versions, based on $U(3)^3$ and $U(2)^3$ respectively, allows suitable extensions of the Standard Model at the TeV scale to comply with current flavour constraints in the quark sector. Here we discuss considerations analogous to MFV in the context of $SU(5)$-unification, showing the new effects/constraints that arise both in the quark as in the lepton sector, where quantitative statements can be made controlled by the CKM matrix elements. The case of supersymmetry is examined in detail as a particularly motivated example. Third generation sleptons and neutralinos in the few hundred GeV range are shown to be compatible with current constraints.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure